"Where is this man who cured you?" they asked.
"I do not know," he answered.
They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, who were the leaders of the people. We have seen that the Pharisees were always enemies to Jesus. So the Pharisees asked him to tell again how he had gained his sight; and he told them:
"The man named Jesus smeared some mud on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."
Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus cannot be from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath."
The scribes had made a rule that mixing up mud on the Sabbath day was working; that carrying it from one place to another was bearing a load; and that to give any treatment to a sick man on the Sabbath, unless it was necessary to save his life, was Sabbath breaking. So to their eyes, Jesus in curing the blind man had broken the Sabbath rules in more than one way.
But some others said, "How can a bad man do such wonderful works? Is not this work of cure a sign that God is with him?"
So there were two parties among them in their opinion about Jesus. They asked the blind man again:
"What do you say of this man who has opened your eyes?"
"I say that he is a prophet from God," answered the man.